travel The yeti is no longer Nepal's official tourist mascot because it didn't look like a yeti David Pescovitz

art Does this yeti, Nepal's official tourist mascot, actually look like a yeti? David Pescovitz

Business Thomas Cook travel collapsed and stranded 150,000 passengers, but still had millions for the execs who tanked it Cory Doctorow

picks Hawaii's action adventure helicopter tour company rings a bell Jason Weisberger

happy mutants A visit to Bosnia's last pigeon post office Cory Doctorow

france Costa Rican measles outbreak traced to unvaccinated French tourists Cory Doctorow

travel The human and financial cost to summit Mount Everest is staggering Seamus Bellamy

Business Anaheim's living wage ballot measure pits big corporate donors against union money Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Chicago is facing its first citywide hotel strike since 1903 Cory Doctorow

travel Overtourism: the plague affecting the world's most interesting places Andrea James

health In separate incidents, two women impaled by beach umbrellas Rob Beschizza

china The last of China's cave dwellers want nothing to do with modern housing Seamus Bellamy

india The Taj Mahal's white marble walls are turning green and brown with pollution Seamus Bellamy

animals Man gets swallowed by hippo and lives to talk about it Seamus Bellamy

Funny Supercut of Instagram travel photo clichés David Pescovitz

Space Russia planning to build boutique hotel on the International Space Station David Pescovitz

happy mutants A playable version of Oregon Trail to promote Oregon tourism Cory Doctorow

tourism Norwegians fundraise to re-erect phallic rock formation David Pescovitz

happy mutants Japan's "Weird Hotel," staffed by robots, in a Japanese theme-park Cory Doctorow

family Cinematic Japanese tourism ad draws on martial arts traditions Andrea James